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11
Arrested on People-Trafficking Charges in
Colombia
BOGOTA – Colombian police arrested 11 people
over the weekend who allegedly belonged to
two networks that sent young women to
Guatemala, Honduras and Panama, where they
were forced to work as prostitutes, the
National Police said.
The arrests were made Sunday in the
northwestern provinces of Antioquia and
Risaralda.
Five women and a man who belonged to an
organization “dedicated to dealing in
persons for the commercial sexual
exploitation of women from Medellin and
Bogota to Honduras and Guatemala” were
arrested in Medellin, the capital of
Antioquia, the National Police said in a
statement.
The victims were poor women, usually single
mothers, who were tricked into accepting
offers of purported jobs in Guatemala.
The women were told they would earn $1,500 a
month and would receive the airfare to a
country in Central America, where “they were
forced to work as prostitutes at two
brothels owned by a Spanish citizen to repay
a debt of approximately $5,000,” the
National Police said.
Five people involved in the sexual
exploitation of women were arrested in a
separate operation.
The suspects allegedly tricked women from
Risaralda into going to Panama, where they
were forced to work as prostitutes.
Brothel operators paid $500 for every woman
sent from Colombia. EFE |
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